What’s Next?

By using tmux paste buffers to move text around, you gain the ability to have a clipboard in situations where you might not have one, such as when you’re logged into the console of a server or without a graphical terminal. Being able to scroll back through the history of a long console output can be a huge help. It’s worth installing tmux directly on your servers for that reason alone.

Now that we have a good understanding of how we move around in tmux, and we know the basics of moving from window to window and pane to pane, we can start working tmux into our daily routine. For many developers, pair programming is often part of that routine. Let’s take a look at how we can use tmux to work with another developer.

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